Description

1908 "Our Home Team" Chicago White Sox Accordion Postcard.
Only five teams from this highly collectible series are known to
exist--both Chicago teams, both St. Louis teams, and the Detroit
Tigers. Here we present the Chicago Americans, who finished just a
game and a half back of Ty Cobb's pennant-winning Tigers the year
of the postcard's issue. The standard vintage baseball equipment
and game image that appears on all five teams' cards fills the
background, with the flap reading "Our Home Team" opening to reveal
a hinged ribbon of paper picturing sixteen members of the
formidable squad, notably Hall of Fame pitcher Ed Walsh, Jiggs
Donahue and Doc White. A schedule of home games rises between the
player images and the top flap. The design of the postcard
necessitates bending it at center to free the folded ribbon of
player images from the cardboard ridge that holds it in place, and
as such there is a heavy crease here. Wear at the edges and corner
rounding is also to be expected for this ancient rarity, and a tiny
bit of paper loss at center left must be noted for accuracy. The
card is postally unused. The ribbon of player images, measuring
2x16" when fully extended, presents some minimal fold line
separations, but nothing that significantly affects display value.